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“I have a difficult time accepting political rhetoric that attempts to draw moral equivalency between science and the murder of millions of people.”

US Senator Adam Kline, responding to Senator Alex Deccio, who compared stem cell research to the Holocaust and genocide in Africa (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 9 April)

“I’m 23 years old and I’m in bed most days.”

Lakeside, California, resident Shannon Scott, who received silicone-gel breast implants in 2002 and developed excruciatingly painful scar tissue. Scott will speak against the surgery at a US Food and Drug Administration debate on whether to remove restrictions on such implants…

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